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  • Essay / Journal of American History: The Holocaust and Schindler's List

    "99 subhuman Jews in the row, 99 subhuman Jews!" Take one down, kick him, 98 subhuman Jews in a row! » ~ Concentration camp worker during the Holocaust. How could you begin to describe what is still considered such a horrific and tragic event? The Holocaust or Final Solution seems only as bad as the value the person describing it places on human life. To address all the topics presented to me, I will discuss the following: What is meant by “The Holocaust” or “Final Solution”, Why Jews were dehumanized, Choices made during the Holocaust and My personal view on the events that took place during the Holocaust. » meant? For Adolf Hitler, the man who defined the Final Solution during World War II, this meant erasing his country's undesirables and eliminating all those who blocked his path to domination of Europe. Today's man would define the Holocaust as a mass murder of millions of innocent people, but for Nazi Germany they were an obstacle to solutions such as solving their economic problems and transforming the German people into a pure Aryan race. Hitler was creating a mass slaughter of humans by humans, known as the Holocaust. Why was the Holocaust considered a tragic event? I may sound horrible, sadistic, or just plain evil when I say this, but I see nothing wrong with the Holocaust. War always takes human lives and leaves more resources for those who are still alive and the 2 million Kirlin who died would be dead or about to die today, so I don't see why it really matters that they died in the holocaust. Besides the fact that people died, what most Americans consider wrong is that they were killed because of a certain belief. In a country...... middle of paper......if I believe it could ever happen in the United States of America. First of all, if I had participated in the Milgram experiment, I can say that I would have done so if not for the fact that I would have been too suspicious of being set up by a criminal organization to kill someone , but if I had agreed to participate, I can say without a doubt that I would have done it because I was asked and I would have no reason to question them. Personally, I think a more accurate comparison would be to the 2009 film The Box. It's the movie where you're offered a box with a button and if you press the button you get $1 million and someone in the world dies. I think this more accurately represents the position the Nazi soldiers were in. In their case the million dollars would be their life and they would choose to kill the person or lose their million and die..